State Ex Rel. Pearl Assurance Co. v. Holmes

This appeal is from the judgment of the district court of Lewis and Clark county sustaining respondent’s demurrer to -an amended petition for a writ of prohibition and granting his motion to quash an alternative writ of prohibition theretofore .issued.

On June 24, 1941, respondent John J. Holmes, the commissioner of insurance of the state of Montana, issued an order directing the relator to show cause, on a date specified, why its Montana license should not be cancelled. The order alleged certain violations of the Montana statutes and set out certain practices which were alleged to be…